#In a very unrelated tangent I was actually just watching the Netflix documentary about Johnny Manziel (I know I know hear me out)
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Hey hey I need to uuh hum fight you at the back of a Denny's or something over those tags on my cyberpunk post lile wtf? That's such a good analysis of his character I love your work a lot in general but this is doing me in I'm gonna cry, you're so fucking right about this dumb broken man 🥺😠
I will not fight you I will bake you a cake and give you a kiss because you're very sweet I appreciate your kindness 😘
I really love your perspective on Johnny's disabilities and addictions impacting how he sees and interacts with the world-- as someone who herself isn't disabled I tend to overlook the way people view the world through that lens and as a result have realized that I haven't touched upon it much in my own analysis of Cyberpunk, and your insight really was spot-on and spoke to me in a way I hadn't considered before.
I talk a lot about the themes and meta of the game but Pondsmith himself came out and said, like, before the game came out that Johnny is not the hero of the story. He THINKS he's the hero of the story but the way people and even himself idolize him and his actions are in many ways his biggest shortcoming. Johnny is addicted to the image of himself, much like he's addicted to his vices and addicted to his cause. He needs his anchors no matter how detrimental they are to him, but in many respects those anchors were never his choice. Now he's stuck in his place, dug in and unable to move, and that's the way he dies. Alone, unmoored, and stuck in his ways.
He's a very tragic and even empathetic character-- I do understand why he does the things he does and feel for him when he suffers tragedies-- but treating him as a hero of this story is wrong, in my opinion. He's a disabled, traumatized war veteran who was set up in life to fail at a very early age. His flaws are of his own making. They are not of his own design.
#brujebutch#Johnny Silverhand#He's just so.................tragic but in a very stinky way#Of course he was going to dip right back into his ways the second he got body autonomy#In a very unrelated tangent I was actually just watching the Netflix documentary about Johnny Manziel (I know I know hear me out)#I won't go on a tangent about how the story of a real life man's struggles with addiction parallels my fictional blorbo I'm not that tactle#but it did frame the IDEA of addiction in a different light for me-- the addiction to fame and lifestyle in this case#Johnny's addictions-- while yes are physical in some cases-- are similarly intangible in my eyes and digging through the lore#At least the addiction to his image and his legacy. It's basically the only thing he has left Post-Mikoshi#He desperately needs to cling to the image of himself. JUSTIFY the image of himself. VALIDATE the image of himself#Johnny's addition to his own self image feeds into everything else and GOD is it just so#Both awful and infuriating. You want the man to stop but you know he won't and you get why he CAN'T#Anyway it's 11 pm here and I need to stop myself before I cry myself to sleep#Enjoy your day and thanks again for your kindness! I will not fistfight you at Dennys tho
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